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New Jersey senators want compromise proposal that would see Brick VA clinic get upgrades

Molly J Smith Best of 2013

Michael Cruden puts flags in the 30 grave markers that represent the 30 men from Bayonne that were killed in the Vietnam War. Every Christmas Eve for the last 25 years, the local VA chapter in Bayonne holds a ceremony for veterans at the memorial on First Street in Bayonne. Cruden's father Donald J. Cruden was killed in Vietnam, and his is one of the names memorialized on the wall.
(Journal File Photo)

A Veterans Administration outpatient clinic in Brick could receive a major upgrade if a compromise proposal in Congress becomes law.

New Jersey Sens. Robert Menendez and Cory Booker touted the proposal during a news conference yesterday, the 70th anniversary of the D-Day invasion. Menendez's office says the Brick clinic would be expanded significantly if the legislation goes through.